"But don't fault them for it."

I disagree. Manipulation, lying, misrepresentation of facts are all things these people deserve the fault and blame for--as do their tactics. Not the tactics of civil disobedience or legitimate (even if illegal) protest. But the political tactics of charlatans and carpetbaggers. They also deserve fault and blame for use of those tactics.

You have summarized the arguments being used by Moore succinctly Casual Observer. Where I disagree is with your interpretation that these people are operating with an open and sincere religious agenda, rather than a secretive and subversive political one. To create a judicial crisis at these levels has nothing to do with the religious beliefs of one judge, and is truly despicable. This manufactured "religious crisis" has everything to do with the political agenda of the Republican right, who routinely manipulate and exploit Southern prejudices to their own partisan political advantage, in a blatant attempt to undermine our secular democracy. And I most certainly fault them for that.